Trend Micro Launches LeakProof 5.0

Trend Micro's LeakProof 5.0 security solution offers cost-conscious businesses features such as Active Update and DataDNA technology, which the company says helps businesses reduce the complexity and cost of managing sensitive data.

PC protection software specialist Trend Micro has announced the latest
version of the company's data loss prevention software, Leak Proof. Version
5.0 comes as part of a data protection pack, which bundles together Trend
Micro's LeakProof Standard, Email Encryption Gateway and Message Archiver
solutions.

The software's new Active Update service helps businesses keep up-to-date on
compliance templates, validators and applications such as instant messaging and
Webmail formats. Trend Micro is also offering LeakProof Server as an appliance
or as a software virtual appliance that can be deployed onto bare-metal or
within a virtualized environment.

"Today's economic turmoil has sensitized businesses and governments to the
need to protect privacy and intellectual property," said Punit Minocha, Trend
Micro's general manager of data protection. "Given that a big chunk of
data breaches come from the inside, our customers are asking for a solution to
stop accidental and malicious data leaks, but have hesitated due to complexity.
LeakProof 5.0 breaks down complexity barriers that previously inhibited DLP
adoption."

Available in two versions, LeakProof Standard helps businesses comply with
regulatory mandates by securing employee and customer data, while LeakProof
Advanced offers the same protection plus DataDNA fingerprinting to secure
intellectual property, according to the company. The software is expected to be
available in later this month. LeakProof 5.0 Standard one-year licenses for the
251-500 seat count start at $47.82 per user, while LeakProof 5.0 Advanced
one-year licenses for the same count start at $68.32 per user.

Trend Micro said its DataDNA technology provides optimal accuracy and
performance for detecting sensitive data. The technology involves algorithms
that extract data's "DNA" embedded
in files, records, e-mails and other content and stores them as signatures. The
company compares the process to taking fingerprints: LeakProof provides a
unique DNA sequence for the information in
the document. Additionally, the character-based technology extracts
fingerprints from any language.

LeakProof 5.0 also features remote fingerprint extraction for file systems and
SharePoint, filters for control over potential loss vectors, and "out of
the box" compliance templates to ensure compliance with regulations. Both
versions of LeakProof include a client and a management server, and the
software client supports Windows 2008, 2003, Vista and
XP.

Thomas Gonzalez, technology manager of the Girl Scouts Southwest Texas, said he
enjoys the simplicity of the solution and the ease of use. "I took
advantage of the HIPAA and PCI compliance templates and only had to modify a
few fields to meet the requirements for our environment," he said. "It protects
the reputation of our organization and helps us avoid the embarrassment and
legal liability of a data leak-I just specify the endpoints and the hardware
devices, and lockdown is done."

According to a 2008 report by the Identity
Theft Resource Center,
more than 35 million data records were reportedly breached in 2008, more than
double from the year before. A similar study by the Ponemon Institute found that
80 percent of internal breaches come from authorized insiders.

Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.